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Overview
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.
An enormously moving story of familial love and hate.
Synopsis
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman — a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.
In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.
The New York Times - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
A touching, funny, sad and altogether irresistable memoir.
Editorials
John Irving
Abundant with the complexities and contradictions of family sympathy... first-rate autobiography, consciousness and intimate... it is as lucid and complicated... as a good novel.— The New York Times Book Review
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
A touching, funny, sad and altogether irresistable memoir.— The New York Times